Post-dating posts… not working in 2.0.2?

Hi gang – well, after convincing a friend on WP that this was easily accomplished by simply clicking the “edit timestamp” tickbox and changing the date to one in the future prior to publishing – it seems I can’t even get it to work on my own site.

I tested it last night… wrote two posts, one right after the other. The second, I edited the timestamp to show up 24 hours later (ie. I only changed the day, not the time) and hit “publish”.

The post is there, under Manage -> Posts however it’s now well past the date and time I saved it for and the post isn’t showing on the site.

I know there’s some plugins or something, but I’d rather not use them if I can help it… this should be a problem easily fixed “as is” since it’s a feature built into the default installation…

Any ideas why this isn’t working (on two separate sites, mine and my friends, no less)? Is this a “bug”?